SocEnt 101 Assignment #1: Life Map
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- Baltimore: 1977
- Baltimore: 1877
- Baltimore: 1957
- I was born in one of the only cities in the U.S. where people of color outnumber whites, yet like most American cities, the geographical and economic segregation is drastic.
- My Family
- 1877
- 1917
- 1937
- 1977
- Although my Jewish family settled in downtown Baltimore when they first came from Russia, Poland, Latvia, fleeing the pogroms that killed and ghettoized millions...
- Hypocrisy
- ...when Black people started to take up more space in their neighborhoods, they fled to the suburbs. Growing up, as we drove through different areas of Baltimore, I was always aware of my relatives complaining "It used to be such a nice neighborhood until the Blacks took over."
- My Father
- If it weren't for all the n*ggers taking jobs, I'd have one by now.
- Bartender! Gimme another.
- As a Russian Jew, the Holocaust that exterminated many of my ancestors shadowed my life. It made me aware of the worst depths that bigotry can take humanity.
- Yet these same people who escaped the ghettos and the horrors of bigotry showed intolerance toward people of color who experienced similar horrors for hundreds of years. It didn't make sense.
- My father never fit into his Jewish family. He was adopted and lost his mother at a young age. He suffered from mental illness and alcoholism, which held him back from getting ahead. But instead of seeking help, he blamed his financial hardship on "Black people taking white jobs."
- Maternal Poverty
- Racial Divide
- Storytelling = Empathy
- When I was 12 years old, my father left us, skipping out on paying child support. My mother and I lived in constant anxiety over keeping a roof over our heads and food in the refrigerator. I saw firsthand the emotional and physical toll poverty can have on a woman struggling to raise her child with no support system in place.
- Motherhood As A Feminist Awakening
- Please keep them safe...
- I managed to get into the Baltimore School for The Arts for high school. Even in a school where the arts can act as an equalizer, and even though I shared the struggle of many of the Black kids living in poverty, there was a racial divide between the white kids and the black kids.
- Politics As An Intersectional Awakening
- Baton Rouge: 2016
- My artistic life in theatre exposed me to the power of storytelling as an empathetic device. Exploring the issues and emotional realities of inequality depicted in plays helped me to to get "inside" them and talk with my fellow performers about their lives.
- Educating Myself On Economic Empowerment
- TED Talk: Microfinancing & Empowerment of Women In Poverty
- When I became a mother, I realized the tenuous thread my kids and I hung on if anything were to happen to their father. It made me feel powerless. I realized that I was forced to play a role in a system designed to ensure men are in power at the disadvantage of women.
- Around the same time, the Black Lives Matter movement began to grow in response to the many incidents of police violence against people of color. The way that many white people blamed the victims of these crimes instead of seeking justice infuriated me. I began to examine my own privilege and where, as a white woman, I have racial blind spots that have kept me from seeing the reality of white supremacy.
- I discovered the world of digital content and copywriting. I learned about entrepreneurship and growing an audience through marketing. And I realized that the only way we can change the power dynamic of white supremacy and patriarchy is to change WHO HAS THE MONEY.
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- Women's Co-Working Collective
- Creating A Better System Of Support For Working Families
- Economic Empowerment = Social Justice
- Baltimore: 2027
- As a freelancer and a mom, I've discovered that one thing that holds women back from gaining wealth is the "parenthood penalty." I want to create a coworking collective where women entrepreneurs get access to a shared workspace to grow their businesses and professional development training alongside affordable childcare.
- I also want to work with employers to create sustainable employment policies that support women employees when they have kids rather than penalize them and make it possible for fathers to take an equal part in raising their kids.
- more women of color business leaders--->more political pull--->more government reform--->more democratic socialism--->more partnerships between private business & nonprofits--->more sustainability.
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